Worst wedding you've been to?

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My worst wedding memory was when DH's cousin got married. He was reluctant to go, and said it might get rough....It did, rather! Drunk old Uncle Wilf fell down the steps and broke his leg, and the bridegroom had to be restrained from attacking his new MIL with a bottle of wine! DH's mum chided his brother for not going, saying "You missed a lovely wedding! "

I've been to a church entertain and feed yourself then evening doo wedding but never a food served by sex one !

Promised to take my dear departed mum and lovely aunty on 2.5 hour each way trip to a rich relatives wedding. Set off in PLENTY of time but aunty had IBS and mum smoked and we stopped at every service station on the way. We got there with about ten minutes to spare completely stressed and with everyone looking at us. M&A decided that they wouldn’t eat anything before we arrived as relatives bound to have put on opulent spread. On arrival no snacks or drinks to be seen, they were then getting sweets with rustling papers out of their bags during the ceremony. Afterwards we waited a couple of hours with one small drink each while photos done. Then finally some food, it was ok - this was a very upmarket hotel. My mum sent hers back after complaining loudly portion too small and meat too tough, aunty ate all the bread rolls on the table. I was so glad to get them back in the car and we stopped for cakes and cups of tea on way back. So glad to get home after that. It was the day out from hell but I miss them and wish I could do it again!

I went to a wedding last year. I felt very sorry for the couple as it had already been postponed by Covid in 2020.
We actually didn't get confirmation it was happening until the week before because it was rescheduled for the weekend of "Freedom weekend" that was then partly postponed.

God love them though, they went ahead despite still having a lot of restrictions in place. We could dance and stand outside but inside was masks, no standing.
Luckily the weather was OK.

Anyway, church bit was wonderful, we watched on Facebook Live as their eldest teen filmed it for us. Reception? Utter shambles.

If it taught many of the non-married guests anything, do not let a mate organise your reception, even if they run a pub.

Food was rank. Utterly terrible. Looked like it was bought and cooked the year before, frozen, then left to defrost in a microwave. Cake hadn't been put together properly so was wonky, and had started to melt as it was ridiculously warm indoors despite it being June.

It was table service only, and didn't we know it. Owner and supposed mate of the couple was rude as fuck to everyone. He clearly didn't want to be serving everyone and considering they had originally had about 250 coming and due to restrictions now had 65, I dread to think what he would've acted like if all those people wanted to be served.

Music could barely be heard which we understood, but bride later told me that every weekend even during the really tight restrictions the owner was having full on garden karaoke, it felt like he was just being off.

Bride spent most of her time apologising for the owner and his remarks and many of us saw it as not getting his sense of humour.

I later found out, although the couple never told the family, that they also got robbed of all the wedding present money. People who do know said about cash in the cards and they never got it.

The owner also charged them for their champagne- fair enough- but then held back about 15 bottles which he then resold to someone else.

Suffice to say, they are no longer friends with the owner of the pub. I can't say I blame them!

What the hell? What happened to him? 😯

Your name wouldn't be Muriel, perchance?

I'm going to read this whole thread later tonight. It might make me feel better about being forced to endure the utter shit show that was DP's eldest son's wedding.

Went to a firends wedding where I didn’t know anyone and didn’t have a date. I was so touched to have been invited but also hadn’t remembered that a lot of the people there would absolutely remember me as the person whose family member had ruined the 21st birthday party of the brides a few years prior. Made the girl cry.
so I turn up an hour late because of work trains and taxi problems,, miss the registry wedding and then go to reception. I’m sitting a table with TWO of my ex flings and a girl who once Confronted me for not making said family member apologise. And then as if fate just wanted to humiliate me I started my period unexpected and I bled through my silk dress onto the white chair cover and left a stain on my dress. I still had al the reception to go through….. I was mortified.

This made me laugh so hard!

One where the bride, a family member, ramped up her usual overbearing personality five notches and stalked around the wedding gathering up wedding guests for a photo saying aggressively MY SISTER HAS JUST HAD A BABY, SHE IS TIRED ABD NEEDS TO GO TO BED SO WE NEED TO DO PHOTOS!!! Her sister is a selfish cow who planned her pregnancy and due date so that it was two weeks before the wedding and DGAF it overshadowed all the planning with worries that the baby would be late and arrive on the wedding day. Everyone just looked at the bride like WTF? She had the same belligerent bossy attitude all day and it was hard to wish her well as she was behaving like such a dick.

My son went to a wedding where no alcohol was served or available. Him and other guests were also rather surprised that they had to clear up at the end, e.g. sweep the floor and put the chairs/tables away!

Bride pregnant: groom stood her up at the altar and had set sail on a merchant sea vessel

Her sister is a selfish cow who planned her pregnancy and due date so that it was two weeks before the wedding

Erm, she what now?! You sound nuts...

Wow @Allthegoodnamesarechosen that is shocking. Male on male sexual assaults happen, and not only that but your lies may have affected the investigation

I think I was at the same wedding! I remember grinding my teeth together to stop laughing hysterically. Or maybe it’s just that vicar’s schtick and they bring it out for every wedding?

Bride found the groom doing the nasty with her Maid of Honor, her sister, about 20 minutes into the reception. Annulled very quickly.

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hard core Christian
no wine

I was a bridesmaid to woman I went to uni with.

Nightmare from start to finish. Despite her promise to pay for our dresses, we got the bill for a dress we'd never wear again. Invited to four bridal showers, she told us what she expected for gifts at each shower. Borrowed a Royal Albert tea set from my Mum for one shower, managed to get half of it back and 40 years later am still waiting (well, yup, I gave up and bought the bits for my Mum)

Arrive at the Church totally fed up of her planning and event.

Find out the usher who is to be my "escort" is my exboyfriend who I had a restraining order against. She knew that he had been stalking me.

Reception at the local Yacht Club. Mediocre canapes and Blue Nun. Cake and Coffee. Called my Dad to get me home and away from psycho ex.

Bridesmaid gift? A piece of soap carved like a butterfly. I left it in the cloakroom.

The groom left her a year later for a women 25 years older than him.

This is an entertaining, if slightly alarming, thread!

I've never experienced a truly terrible wedding - the worst was a reception at an October wedding when the temps had suddenly plummeted. We sat in a freezing marquee and the buffet was dire, real food poisoning territory (think meat that was clearly half-cooked) so we were starving. The weird thing was that the bride was a real food gourmet and loved expensive restaurants, I would've assumed that she'd be really fussy about the catering. Clearly not!

One that was a bit strange as we were all very young, it was a friend from university and he was only 20 years old. They were quite religious and didn't hang about. The father of Bride mentioned in his speech "i've known Mark for almost a year now..." and I remember thinking that sounds awful. The room they got married in was then changed so be the reception was also there, but before that we all had to wait in a very narrow hot room for about an hour and a half before going back into the room. The food was awful. Cous cous with melon balls in it, curly sandwiches and then a cake that was made by the women in the family. It was just strange and everyone was starving. No real atmosphere at all, think we left very early.

Another one where there were some food trucks instead of food, it was absolutely pissing it down with rain so you had to run out, get soaked and grab some food and then back into the venue as they were all parked outside obviously. They were really slow with the food and people were waiting for ages and there were bottle of tesco value water on the tables as the groom worked for tesco. The bride changed into a white suit at the end and awkwardly my friends husband had turned up in a white suit that looked identical, which was very funny.

Another one where it was held in a rugby club and they put a marquee up inside a sports hall, we had to do that excruciating line up and say something to the assembled family as we entered, it was really slow and everyone was just mooching in and muttering "Thanks, you must be so proud". As we walked in you could see every place had food already waiting but it was a really hot day and the food had clearly been there a while. It was bread that had dried out a bit and some sweaty pate 😕The main was a tasteless and bland roast dinner with horrible dry meat and undercooked potatoes. They forgot to serve my friend any dinner for ages and she had to keep asking if they had any food for her.

The evening buffet was absolutely ravaged within about 10 minutes and there was nothing left.

We were at a table with a really drunken uncle who shouted out and heckled at anyone doing a speech which was quite entertaining but not appropriate.

Omigod!!!! Like something from an 18th century sea shanty 😀😀)

My own. My MIL turned up in a white floaty dress and had a sour face most of the day. My cousin's little boy was page boy and they turned up with literally seconds to spare. The photographer was crap and didn't know how to group people effectively. I have only one photo with my brother and me in (taken by a guest), as the photographer didn't think to do a 'family of the bride' photo. After photos, MIL rushed me and H away "for photos with great aunt Mary" so we missed welcoming our guests into the wedding breakfast. We had planned to give the lovely floral table decorations to various elderly relatives, but someone nicked them. We also had a funky table plan, with little people on it. Someone nicked that too. For first dance, we'd forgotten to tell the DJ which song to play so MIL chose something awful. Afterwards, we couldn't decide which photos to put in our album because they were all so bad.

I almost fell for this too...... we were invited to a split wedding @ 4 hours drive away - we had 3 very young children including a fairly young baby. Thankfully, having accepted, I re read the invite and cottoned on that the expectation was that we did our own thing for @ 5 hours before returning at 7pm. I made our apologies and retracted our acceptance.

I have never been a fan of having day and evening invites but this split invite idea is something else. I really don't understand why any B&G would think that's OK.

@BrassyLocks okay so there's more than one region of the world where people randomly fight with sticks
It sounds absolutely exhausing, and you were trapped there!

'I have never been a fan of having day and evening invites but this split invite idea is something else'

Completely agree. It's appalling. We knew a couple who went to a wedding where he was groomsman. His wife was invited to the ceremony but not the meal! So they both went to the ceremony, then he went to the meal while she had to bugger off and entertain herself for hours in a strange town, and then come back for the evening do 😱 I think she needed her head examined tbh. Not a chance I would have gone to be treated like that

I’ve enjoyed reading all of these!
I also fell victim to a split invite. My (now ex) DH and I didn’t realise until we were halfway through a 3 hour drive to get to the wedding. I think because neither of us had ever even heard of this as a socially accepted option, we just didn’t clock what the invite was saying until I re-read it mid journey!
we didn’t even know the couple that well, it was an expensive and boring waste of a weekend. We did have a very nice lunch at a nearby pub but honestly, could have done that at home!
we were going to give them cash as a gift, but decided not to bother…